Comment by ryandrake

I've resigned myself to the reality that every employer is basically the same in this regard. You need to be spending 25-50% of your time doing your actual work and 50-75% of the time doing all that political and self-promotion and metrics-chasing work so that you can "show your impact" or whatever the hell your company calls it. This has been the case at literally every job I've ever had. If you just go in as an expert and do the technical work you were hired to do 100%, you're going to have a bad time career-wise.